World of Warcraft: Dawn of the Aspects: Part V by Knaak Richard A

Author:Knaak, Richard A. [Knaak, Richard A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2013-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

FOUR

THE FIVE

Jaina knelt between Kalec and the artifact, caught between the knowledge that she needed to work fast to save the blue dragon and the great desire to hold and comfort him if these were to be his last minutes no matter what she attempted. Kalec continued his grisly metamorphosis, the proto-dragon elements far more pronounced and the rate of his breathing so rapid that the archmage could not believe that his lungs had not already exploded.

This can’t be what this device was meant for! Jaina insisted to herself. It makes no sense!

She concentrated on the pulsating artifact. Her eyes widened as she noticed that what she had believed to be a single solid object actually had two components.

“He found something,” Buniq had said. Buniq, who could vanish without a trace even when very near the archmage.

But no sooner had she started to make some connection between the mysterious taunka and the discovery of the second part than Jaina felt as if someone watched her. The spellcaster quickly looked up beyond the artifact.

There was no one there—or, rather, no one there now. Yet a peculiar thought ran through Jaina’s mind, the thought that she had seen someone. Not a dragon and not a human but something closer to the latter in shape. As she concentrated, the archmage imagined that it had been a cloaked and hooded figure a bit taller than even Kalec in his humanoid form.

Jaina knew something of keepers, and while they were much taller—like giants, actually—she was certain that they had the power to make themselves be seen otherwise. Yet even if that was the case, if she had seen some keeper image, Jaina wondered why it had faded away so quickly.

I didn’t imagine it. . . . It stood there. And it had not appeared until Jaina had begun to investigate the fact that there were two components to the artifact, not one.

That also brought her back to Buniq, whom she increasingly considered something other than a taunka. It would not be difficult for a keeper to take on such an illusion, either.

Certain that she had come upon the right track, Jaina investigated where the two pieces looked as if they were fused together. Had it not been for her expert eye, the archmage doubted that she would have noticed. Moreover, they were also blended together by spellwork.

Spellwork . . . Jaina thought again of how she had first confronted the artifact. Perhaps her attack had been too broad for this part of the situation.

Re-creating the symbol, she studied the bonds between the two components, then cast.

The image draped over the smaller part and, thus, where it was sealed to the larger. As that took place, Jaina reinforced her personal spells yet again. She had no idea what might happen, but experience had taught her to expect the worst.

Both parts flared white, blinding her. The archmage fell back, certain that the relic was about to either explode or strike hard against her.

Instead, the bright illumination faded, and the smaller component turned half a circle.

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